Mira Nair pic opened the Venice Film Festival, screened at Toronto

IFC Films has bought all North American rights to director Mira Nair’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” which opened the Venice Film Festival and had its North American premiere at Toronto.

The acquisition, announced Thursday, reunites Nair with IFC, which financed her 2001 pic “Monsoon Wedding.” That film also screened at Toronto that year when the fest was rocked by the events of 9/11.

“Fundamentalist” stars Liev Schreiber, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland and Riz Ahmed in the title role. Based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, it tells the story of a young Pakistani man whose pursuit of corporate success on Wall Street leads him back to the world he had left behind.

The script was adapted by Bill Wheeler, with screen story credit to Hamid and Ami Boghani. Pic was produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher under her Cine Mosaic banner with the Doha Film Institute financing and is a Mirabai Films and Cine Mosaic production.